Asian Quotes - Page 7

• I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?

  Chad Hugo

  America, Disrespect, Trying

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• The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Running, Country

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

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• I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Player, Black

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• In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Heart, Mind, Woven

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness”, p.2, Hachette UK

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• I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Dream, America, Race

  "American Dreamer". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

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• Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

  David Oyelowo

  Teacher, Bullying, Kids

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• For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps- competition, modern science, the rule of law and private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things are the secret sauce of Western civilization.

  Niall Ferguson

  Country, Years, Law

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• There are no Asian movie stars

  Aaron Sorkin

  Stars, Movie Star

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• We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

  Arto Lindsay

  People, Elements, Abstract

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• I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'

  Jo Koy

  Orange, Compliment, Chickens

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• That Asian guy is really good at kicking. Shocking. Someone is pressing 'A' really fast somewhere.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Guy, Kicking

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• This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.

  Coolio

  Food, Cooking, Meat

  Coolio (2009). “Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
  with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wind, Oil, Sound

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.338, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or any Asian country, they can turn a television into a watch. They're very creative. And you look at the Indians, they have been very gifted in the spirituality.

  Reggie White

  Country, Creativity, Japan

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• I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

  Aziz Ansari

  Want, Fields, Comic

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• I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

  Timbaland

  Chinese, Alternatives, Care

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• The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back.

  Lee Westwood

  Events, Being Played, Singapore

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• The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America might otherwise bear alone. America needs a strong and effective U.N. I want to work with this new Congress to pay our dues and our debts. We must continue to support security and stability in Europe and Asia - expanding NATO and defining its new missions, maintaining our alliance with Japan, with Korea, with our other Asian allies, and engaging China.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Korea, Europe

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.68, Best Books on

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• I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

  Margaret Cho

  Racism, Toronto, Syndromes

  "Margaret Cho: CHO Revolution". Video, June 12, 2004.

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• The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.

  Margaret Cho

  Role Models, Roles, Mouths

  "Margaret Cho: CHO Revolution". Video, June 12, 2004.

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• Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

  Han Suyin

  Believe, Race, Dominance

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• The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

  Edward T. Hall

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

  James Iha

  Nice, Successful, Years

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• The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

  William C. Kirby

  Important, United States, Actors

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• My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

  Moon Bloodgood

  White, Looks, Melting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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